Americans are tired, and starting to protest taxes everywhere. They don’t know what they want for taxes, but they do know that the current system is a mess.
Well, I’ve got a suggestion. There’s a tax plan that was thought up by Americans who were similarly tired of the current system, and carefully researched to be as gentle as possible, and as fair as possible. It’s called the Fairtax, and it would instantly transform the economic landscape of America, encouraging innovation, growth, and savings, and jumping our GDP by huge amounts, maybe to double digits. It has been thoroughly scrutinized by top economists around the country, including at Harvard, and held up under that scrutiny, and polls have been conducted to make sure the majority of Americans will prefer its taxation to the other competing tax reform plans, or to doing nothing.
Please, if you want to know more about the Fairtax, ask me. I will gladly explain any and all aspects about it, and how it would drastically help our country.
Tai-Chi Policy 
The tax evasion the FairTax would generate would be horrendous, causing a negative feedback loop driving both the rate and evasion higher and higher until it collapses for lack of comprehensiveness. It’s also regressive as hell. Heck, a VAT tax would be better.
On the other hand, a simplified “no loopholes or tax breaks” income tax (whether flat or mildly progressive) with an unlimited IRA as the only allowable deduction would accomplish very similar things as the FairTax but without the negative consequences. A negative tax rate under the poverty level would address the needs for both welfare and social security (per Milton Friedman).
By the way, one of your statements is factually incorrect. The FairTax has not “held up” under scrutiny. Many economists think it’s a lousy idea.
How would tax evasion be bad under the FairTax? A simple, retail level sales tax is much easier to enforce, as it requires monitoring only businesses rather than individuals, which are generally not only better at keeping paperwork, but are also far fewer for the industry to keep track of. Not only that, but businesses have little incentive to cheat on behalf of their customers when they could lose their business license, whereas individuals have every incentive to cheat on behalf of themselves under an income tax. Not only that, but an income tax is subject to cheating via under the table payments and offshoring, two problems from which sales taxes do not suffer. From your comments, I think you misunderstand the FairTax, as a VAT tax is basically a sales tax applied to the good at every level of production, whereas the FairTax is a sales tax applied to any good only once – and therefore much simpler bureaucratically.
My statement wasn’t incorrect, but I admit it was ambiguous. Many economists have taken pot shots at the Fairtax and then not had their statements hold up under scrutiny (most notably there was an independent study of the FairTax where they modified it before they even evaluated the effects), but there have been no legitimate serious studies of the FairTax that have said that it wasn’t a good idea.
Personally, I don’t buy the fair tax is going to be actually fair. It favors the rich who already has a huge arsenal of tax loopholes which the average joes working at an 8 to 5 job don’t. Second point is that any increase in the sales tax will be inflationary. The cost of everything is going to go sky high. When people cannot afford to buy even the basics, how can that help the economy as now when we have a depression? A better and simpler solution is go after the tax cheats including the rich and well connected ones! Prosecution of the rich and well connected will encourage everyone to pay their fair share of taxes. Politicians also need to be held accountable—-only voters do not educate themselves to the issues so, the politicians can lie, steal and cheat themselves into positions of power time and time again!
The Fairtax clears up tax loopholes. The biggest loophole that the rich have is that many of them don’t have income: they live off of their existing money and investments, not some regular job. By taxing consumption of new goods, we eliminate that loophole for rich people (and also illegal aliens, criminals, tourists…)
Your second point would be true, except that we tax corporations, which means that they pass that cost onto the price of their goods, as well as raising the price of their goods to compensate for the accounting department they have on hand that tries to follow tax law to ensure that customers get the lowest price possible. Finally, companies pay for lobbyists to try and write loopholes into corporate tax law, and corporate tax law ends up being the primary decision companies use for business decisions, rather than what would be most productive.
All of this means that companies aren’t focused on growth but instead on taxes, and that the cost of goods is already raised by roughly 30% just due to corporate taxes, although the government only collects a fraction of that. By eliminating corporate taxes, the price of goods will drop ~30%, which is the sales tax amount the FairTax proposes to apply.
We post on websites. We complain. We write our congressmen (who don’t listen). Yes, we need the Fair Tax, but, people like Brock, who seems to be an intelligent person, won’t take the time to read about it and really understand it. (Otherwise, he wouldn’t think it would increase evasion)
To address the evasion issue, just look at how well states are already collecting consumption taxes. It’s already in place.
Getting back to my original thought: WE NEED TO DO MORE! We need a leader. Lets go to Washington and protest. Want to really get some attention? Lets not pay taxes for ninety days, or six months, or however long it takes. No withholding. They can’t put 25 million people in jail, can they?
The problem is getting 25 million people to participate in such a scheme.
The problem(s) with most amricans is ignorance yes I say this is because the present system is broken…. it leads to cheating rich
and a lot others!Our WDC crowd need to get off there duff and
pass the Fair Tax to operate for 10 yrs,then if not suitable go back
to the primitive tax ststem!!
The 14th was illegally ratified. The income tax was passed by congress to help finance WW Two and was to end after the war.That woke up the sleeping giant (IRS) and they, with the help of our gov’t, through prosecution, threats and jail sentences the income tax was never taken off the books like it was supposed to. For more information on this contact the Enterprise Society in Fresno, Calif.
Knowledge is Power!!!